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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has decided that a proposed assault weapons ban won’t be part of a gun control bill the Senate plans to debate next month, the sponsor of the ban said Tuesday, a decision that means the ban stands little chance of survival.

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Feinstein is always ready to dance on the graves of children, in her never ending efforts to destroy the US Constitution and turn the US population into defenseless peasants.

They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction?

– Patrick Henry March 23, 1775

Temperatures have been running well below Hansen’s zero emissions scenario C, but March temperatures are going to be very low – and no La Nina to blame things on this year.

He has run out of places to hide.

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Global warming causes early spring, throwing natural and man-made systems “out of kilter” | Union of Concerned Scientists

Grand Forks, North Dakota is averaging -11C, and has not made it above freezing so far this meteorological spring.

History | Weather Underground

h/t to Andy DC

They took a picture of a shadow, and tried to pass it off to their readers as “emissions spewing”

EPA may delay climate rules for new power plants – The Washington Post

Any cloud heavily laden with moisture appears dark when lit from the other side.  That is because it creates a shadow.

h/t to Dave Burton

Obama has 30% more money in the current budget than Bush had in his largest budget, and plenty of money for million dollar golf weekends – but there isn’t enough money for a band performance.

The Obama administration blamed sequester cuts for having to cancel a traditional Marine Corps Band performance Sunday at the St. Patricks Day parade in Rocky Point, N.Y.

“We’re political pawns,” Joe Cognitore, commander of the Rocky Point VFW Post, which co-sponsored the parade, told the New York Post.

Marine Band’s no-show in St. Patrick’s Day parade blamed on sequester – Washington Times

h/t to Dave G

Hottest bumper sticker: ‘Honk for impeachment’

h/t to Dave G

Ever since 9/11, the American people have been behaving like mindless scared sheep. We need to have a serious conversation about who DHS is, and what they are doing.

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h/t to Dave G

Sandy’s storm surge was 13 feet, due largely to a full moon high tide. Leading climate experts blamed this on global warming.

At the other end of the hockey stick, a 1900 hurricane killed 10,000 people and produced a 20 foot storm surge.

The water rose at a steady rate from 3 p.m. until about 7:30 p.m., when there was a sudden rise of about four feet in as many seconds. I was standing at my front door, which was partly open, watching the water, which was flowing with great rapidity from east to west. The water at this time was about eight inches deep in my residence, and the sudden rise of 4 feet brought it above my waist before I could change my position. The water had now reached a stage 10 feet above the ground at Rosenberg Avenue (Twenty-fifth street) and Q street, where my residence stood. The ground was 5.2 feet elevation, which made the tide 15.2 feet. The tide rose the next hour, between 7:30 and 8:30 p.m., nearly five feet additional, making a total tide in that locality of about twenty feet.

1900 Galveston Hurricane 

It is time for me to come clean.

I gave between $500 and $1000 to big oil last year at the gas station, and received exactly $0.00 for my role in the massively funded vast right wing anti-science climate denial conspiracy.

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In 2003, climate experts told us that heatwaves in France are the new normal. More evidence of that has appeared this week.

Heavy snow in Europe leads to road, rail and air transport chaos – Telegraph